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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.378
It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.